Three Echoes – Western Desert Art explores the poetic notion of echoes – how we can echo a thought, a sentiment or a consciousness.
Curated by Djon Mundine OAM FAHA, this touring exhibition showcases eighty-one paintings, prints and batiks from the early 1970s to early 2000s by fifty-seven artists from Ikuntji (Haasts Bluff), Papunya and Utopia Aboriginal communities in the western desert regions of the Northern Territory. These works communicate stories of tjukurrpa (Dreaming) and Country. They reflect everyday life and people, historic and contemporary stories, flora and fauna, and landscape.
Maudie Petersen Nungurrayi (c.1937–2006), Warlpiri language group, Untitled, 1984, synthetic polymer powder paint on composition board, 31 × 38cm. Photograph: Andrew Curtis. © Maudie Petersen Nungurrayi, Aboriginal Artists Agency Ltd. Courtesy Queen Victoria Art Gallery, Tasmania
Queen Victoria Art Gallery
1 February to 6 April 2025
Tasmania
